The Ballyfermot Blogger

Just in today from the independant.ie is a story the states
“Even though the amount of carcinogenic dioxin in beef was found to be double that of the contaminated pork, the risk is much lower for several reasons”
Yes you read right, a batch of contaminated Irish Beef has twice the amount of cancer causing agents in it than the Pork scandal samples of late but it will not be taken off of Irish shelfs neither withdrawn from sale beacause?
“Consumers also tend to eat much more pork on a daily basis than they do beef. Consequently, someone would have to eat beef for every meal over a long period of time before they were at any greater risk of contamination”
Well thats just great, what if you dont eat pork?
FSAI toxicologist Rod Evans says “The risk is 300 times lower than the risk of pork,”
Eh? even though its twice as contaminated?
Rod Evans “Dioxin accumulates in animal fat rather than lean meat. Since people consume more animal fat in pork than in beef”
And if I dont eat pork and use suet or beef fat as and baking ingredient then what?

Just for the record, if you read these pages then you know this already, I do eat pork but i also eat beef and we use suet in my home cooking so how should I be feeling right now